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METRO VANCOUVER — The ex-girlfriend of accused Surrey Six killer Cody Haevischer said Friday she didn’t hide her face from a surveillance camera when she went to destroy evidence on Oct. 19, 2007 because “you don’t think you are going to get caught.”

The woman, who can only be identified as KM due to a publication ban, rejected a suggestion from Haevischer’s lawyer Simon Buck that she hadn’t seen her boyfriend write “people died” on a white board that day, as she testified this week.

He showed her video surveillance from the Stanley apartment building shortly after the murders of her with Haevischer’s brother Justin carrying a laundry bag she said contained the evidence. Their faces were visible and Justin was smiling.

“If you had been taking a bag of things connected to a scene where people had died, you would have taken steps to conceal your identity, right?” Buck asked.

Replied KM: “I haven’t been really part of killing somebody before and getting rid of evidence, so I wasn’t really up to date on how to make sure I was hiding myself.”

KM, who dated Haevischer from November 2003 until early 2009, began her cross-examination Friday morning explaining that she only agreed to cooperate with police when she realized her gang “family” was not loyal to her.

She testified that she was extremely reluctant to tell police what she knew about the Surrey Six murders when first interviewed on April 5, 2009.

But as the days went on, she began to provide more detail of the horrific gangland slaughter and other crimes she blamed on the Red Scorpion gang.

“I was starting to figure out that … I didn’t have to be so loyal to my family anymore because they weren’t loyal to me,” KM testified in B.C. Supreme Court Friday. “I was thinking, ‘Why am I going to jail for them when they wouldn’t do the same thing for me?’ ”

Buck asked, referring to her gang brethren: “You thought they left you in the lurch?”

“Yeah, they kind of screwed me over,” she said.

Earlier this week, KM testified that she helped Haevischer’s co-accused Matt Johnston and a man who can be identified only as Person X clean two guns less than an hour before the Surrey Six murders.

She said she brought Windex and paper towels to the pair inside the Stanley apartment she shared with Haevischer at the time.

But she also said she had no idea what their plan was when the men left the Stanley just after 2 p.m.

Both the apartment, where police captured Person X and Johnston on surveillance video that day, and a BMW alleged to have been used by the killers were in KM’s name.

She testified that Johnston and Haevischer returned to the Stanley after an hour in a frenzied state, with Johnston dumping out a bag full of cash, clothes and cellphones that she later took to destroy.

She said she twice saw Haevischer write notes to other Scorpions on dry eraser boards about people dying that day.

KM told Buck Friday that she was very wary of police even after she agreed to cooperate when Haevischer was arrested on April 4, 2009.

“On the 5th, I was still an emotional wreck. It was a really hard time. I don’t think anyone can imagine what it feels like to have to go through this,” she said. “I still didn’t want to do it. I still didn’t trust the cops.”

She said she held back information about the Surrey Six until a police interview on April 16, 2009.

Even then, she didn’t disclose information that she said was provided to her by Red Scorpion Jon Bacon, who was shot to death in Kelowna in August 2011.

“I am still nervous and don’t want to do this today. But I’m doing it because it’s the right thing,” she said about testifying. “To be able to move on and start a new life, you kind of have to let everything go.”

Haevischer and Johnston are charged with conspiring to kill rival drug dealer Corey Lal, as well as the first-degree murder of Lal, his brother Michael and associates Eddie Narong and Ryan Bartolomeo and bystanders Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan.

KM is expected to be cross-examined for another week before the trial breaks for the holidays.